A Cosmos: Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine Gallery – in pictures

Sinister body parts, colourful enemas, jellyfish made from blown glass … a retrospective by Cologne artist Rosemarie Trockel showcases her weird, wacky and wide-ranging work alongside that of other artists. The result is a swirling universe of marvellous matter.
A Cosmos is at the Serpentine Gallery until 7 April

Wednesday 13 February 2013 14.30 EST

Trockel displays many works by other artists, such as this sculpture by the ballerina-obsessed Morton Bartlett – Untitled (Ballerina) 1950/60

Rosemarie Trockel's Replace Me (2011), an inverted plastic palm tree. Behind it hangs Trockel's photographic version of Gustav Courbet’s Origin of the World, which has replaced the pubic hair with a large spider